descriptive music

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Though not overtly descriptive music, its four movements, playing for a little under 20 minutes, imaginatively evoke the feeling of four distinct times in the passage of a day.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2012

His specialty as a composer was in the domain of descriptive music, his genius was for the picturesque.

From Great Violinists And Pianists by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)

This is genuine descriptive music for it really sounds ghostly.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond

The English have made much of Haydn's descriptive music in the accompanied recitatives.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)

Of course, to write an imitative phrase is quite another matter from writing a successful piece of descriptive music.

From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by Runciman, John F.